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Why Monahan doesn’t mind if those songs eclipse the band’s name recognition: “Some artists release songs and they start at the top of iTunes because of name recognition. We always start at the bottom and work our way to the top. I became happy about that, because it means it’s based on the power of the song.”

Train by the numbers: more than 10 million albums and 30 million tracks sold, three Grammy Awards, two Billboard Music Awards, and seven studio albums, including last year’s Bulletproof Picasso

Point of departure: 1994 in San Francisco, beginning as a five-piece band

Point of arrival: 1998’s “Meet Virginia,” on the band’s self-titled debut album

Length of “Drops of Jupiter”’s layover in the Top 40: 10 months—most of 2001

Key cuts from the new album: “Cadillac, Cadillac,” a sunny head-nodder with Caribbean elements, the Western-tinged “Angel in Blue Jeans” (complete with music video starring Danny Trejo), and the newest hit, “Bulletproof Picasso”

How you met The Fray: The piano-driven rockers scored their first major hit with 2005’s “How to Save a Life.”

How you met Matt Nathanson: with his breakout hit “Come On Get Higher,” or via the smirking melody of 2013’s “Kinks Shirt”